Archive for July, 2006

Post-Gazette Article

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

We’re in the local press.
Researchers work to thwart cleverer cyber scammers in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Austin Hill: Shortcuts, Habits, and Sand Castles

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Austin was a cofounder of Zero Knowledge (now Radialpoint).
Zero Knowledge believed that everybody would agree that security and privacy was a good idea, if only it were easy enough to use.  So all they needed to do was to make it easy enough.
They got plenty of press attention; the interface was easy; but at [...]

Opening Session

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Lorrie Cranor began the day with a short introductory session.  Thanks to her, to the chairs, and program committee for organizing this event.  There are 99 people attending, 39 papers submitted and 14 papers accepted this year.
Amusingly, SOUPS received an e-mail message from Nigeria announcing that three people from there were registering for [...]

Blogging from SOUPS 2006

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Good morning!  I’m at SOUPS 2006, the second annual Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security, at Carnegie-Mellon University.  I’m hoping this blog will be a place where we can write a record of the conference together and discuss the sessions.
If you’re here at the conference, please register yourself an account (click “Register” on [...]